TC ELECTRONIC guitar pedals and studio gear you should not miss!
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- Опубликовано: 16 июл 2024
- Let's talk about @tcelectronic!
I have been using TC gear for more than 20 years, both in the studio and on stage as a guitarist. Their reverbs, effects, dynamics and pedals have defined how my productions sound these days! Let's have a closer look at the history of the company and let's check out my favorite TC gear both from the studio and the guitar world!
All the TC products mentioned in this video (some links can be affiliate links):
The TC chorus pedal:
➡️t1p.de/2hdjj
The TC pedal plugin bundle:
➡️t1p.de/4vn1y
TC 2290 delay plugin (with hardware controller):
➡️t1p.de/c6qks
The TC Reverb plugin (with hardware controller):
➡️t1p.de/m4fi2
TC Master-X plugin (with hardware controller):
➡️t1p.de/ha2ik
TC MD3 (Finalizer) plugin:
➡️t1p.de/8d1d7
The TC IR player:
➡️t1p.de/4ow21
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What's your favorite from TC ELECTRONIC? Let me know!
On my board, I’ve always had the TC Electronic Sentry wired using the 4CM. One noise gate to rule them all \m/
Great piece on TC!
I had a TC 2x12 bass cab. Great sounding, loud and well rounded. Adjustable coaxial tweeters. No need for a bigger stack for most purposes and situations. I'm willing to get me some tc pedals.
I have the Eyemaster pedal. Love it
Definitely G-major multi efect rack unit. I have G-major 2 in my gigging rig and I've tried to find another unit for studio but couldn't find any. Few years ago someone was selling a punch of tc.electronic rack units and I offered to buy just the original g-major but he/she ghosted me. :( Such a versatile unit with amazing effects.
Great episode, been waiting for the jhs show to cover tc, but glad you did! I absolutely love their stuff, especially the toneprint pedals.
Vintage guitar pedal bundle is sick
Didn't know that it exist, thanks for mentioning man!
Thanks Kohle! Great summary, as always.
That was a great video!! I’d love to see more videos about companies products that you have used for years. I would definitely like to see a video with you doing some mastering through the finalizer. 🤘🏻🤘🏻
That’s on the list already. The Finalizer
Iuse three pedals since many years back. The flashback, Corona chorus, and Hall of fame reverb. Just love them.
Great vid. An old nova delay and an early SCF have permanent residency on my board. And - don't be afraid to use the SCF's intensity pot!
I gotta say, I really love and enjoy my Flashback 2. I even loaded a chorus on one of the tone print slot. Great sounds, reliable, solid as a tank! I’ve always been attracted to their product, great quality for the price.
This was a very necessary episode to reintroduce TC Electronic to these players who weren't even born when many of their gear was new. I think a real time demonstration of TC would be a natural follow to this session. Thank you for posting.
That’s exactly what I had in mind. Reintroduce a lot of the TC stuff.
ive been using their m300 rack unit for years. basically a simplified m3000 unit. the tc classic hall emulation is immaculate. i love the delays and various verb algorithms. i wish i had 2 of them so i could use it on more sources haha
Tc are probably one of the most used and not talked about gear companies by top engineers, great as always Kristian 🤘
That was exactly the inspiration for this video. 🤘
@@KohleAudioKult That and the money they paid you.
Nice vid👍 Got their Polytune 3 and Flashback mini delay. Both great
Tc electronic sentry is the best gate pedal I’ve ever used. I’ll never get rid of mine. I also use the flashback x4 and the hof x4. They are great but kinda big. I’ll prolly get something smaller eventually but the sound of them is incredible really.
One company that I view as similar in what they offer as far as pedalboard gear that I really enjoy is electro harmonix. They make killer stuff that will permanently live on my pedalboard. Like their pitchfork+. It’s a total sleeper. I like it way more than my digitech whammy dt. I got it hooked up to my digitech fs pedal and I can control my pitchfork presets with it and then I have a mission engineering expression pedal and I do all my fun Pantera and Gojira pitch squeelies with it! Really fun.
I bought for my guitar TC The Prophet a nit delay pedal for a small amount of money. Very satisfied with the pedal.
Got that sub n up in the delay feedback loop of a memory boy deluxe. Great for all sounds.
I used the G-system for many years until I switched to line 6 Helix. I loved the quality of the TC delays and reverbs. The just sounded large and expensive to me. I had a Spark boost and loved it. PolyTune and Sentry Gate ftw. 😊
You can use the Sentry going into the amp AND the FX Loop at THE SAME TIME for double gating your head and board.
I have the TC Sustain Parametric Pedal...THE very best compressor for boosting amp or pedal overdrive/distortion.....super quiet, even without engaging the noise suppressor feature!
Kristian, the products of TC Electronics are so well designed and it's great that you are impressed by them. I use a lot of their products as a hobby guitarist. I agree that the MIMIC pedal is one of the most great pedals, but I would like to share two older pedals which you should try at least. This is the VPD-1 (Vintage Pre Drive) and the Dual Parametric Equalizer.
Sometimes old digital stuff works better than emulated stuff.
You know...I still miss Tore...
Isn’t the EQ Pedal another analog classic?
@@KohleAudioKult Well I don't know if it's analog or digital. TC Electronic was back in the days far beyond other pedal manufacturers.
The tc gate pedal is great! It can filter out hiss without blocking or noticeably changing your guitar sound.
Never used any other tc gear though. I'll check out their studio stuff ^^
For the Integrated Preamp, AuroraDSP makes the Unified Preamplifier, which is a software clone. Also, I currently only own one piece of TC Electronic physical gear, and that's the Eyemaster. I use it as the second stage in a triple pedal double boost setup (the first and third being a Joyo Argos Drive, and the third being a Flamma FC19 Rat clone in turbo mode, with the gain set to 9 o'clock on the Rat and everything else set to clean with the volume dimed). Otherwise, I use it and the Rat to double boost vintage voiced Marshall amps/sims/plugins (JCM800, Plexi Super Lead, and JTM45 are among my favorites).
Always been a huge fan of the NOVA system (multi-FX pedal) has delay, reverb, modulation and pitch shift effects. a compressor and boost. A tuner AND distortions (which was the weakest effect). Bought it for like 200 because it was cheaper than loading a pedal board up and this thing rips. The effects are very customizable with numerous settings and types. Also had a lot of routing options plus even a "high" and "low" output. The only thing effect quality wise i've heard that comes close now is the quad cortex. Gonna have to check out those phaser plugins since those are some of my favorite FX in the NOVA system.
Nice!
The Hall of Fame Reverb was awesome when it first came out.
hi great video , personally i am a big fan of the dual parametric equalizer
The G-Force dude!!! I’m still saving to get a G-Force, those things are still expensive
I agree, I love quite a few of their products. Been loving the MIMIQ Double for 5 years now, incredible pedal. For 12 years now I've been using a G-Major for the pitch shifter, amazing tracking even when bending, I like it better than my Eventide Pitch Factor. 3 years ago I discovered the Brainwaves pitch shifter, looks like it's using the G-Major pitch shifter, very similar, good stuff. The Sentry Noise Gate is great too. I still have to look up what else they have that might be great. The only TC product I really dislike it the TC Aeon, some bad attempt at an eBow but it's unreliable, fidgety and very prissy.
G - System with switching my road king channels and inserts of dirt into loop when needed
Hey, Kristian! Great video as ussual. I love my Eyemaster, Sentry and Mimiqs, mono (with a splitter) and stereo. But have you noticed an issue with stereo Mimiq pedal? It's like left and right channels are rapidly switching their places.
I have only used the mono in / mono out 100% wet, which I think is the correct way of using it in the studio.
I have the MIMIQ. I will never take it off of my pedal board. The other pedal that will never leave my board is the Joyo Uzi. They are the bread and butter for making thrash tones.
i love tc could you do a video on budget hardware comps
Thanks for the reminder that the new, shiny stuff isn’t always necessary. There are already so many good sounding solutions out there and maybe I don’t need the nice looking new plugin all the time? ;)
Absolutely. It would blow everyone’s mind in the 2000s for how cheap you can get the TC high end algorithms these days. The System 6000 reverb used to be 1000€. For the plugin! 🤯
embrace the OG
because they're good product
not to mention their branch company Tannoy monitor too
i used it for long time until both failed due aging lol
Have you tried the Doubler plugin from Nembrini? I've tested it and it works quite well with DIs to get the fake double track sound. It's also inexpensive. Would be cool to see it vs the mimiq pedal setup.
Great vid. Also, I noticed the end card and subscribe circle are missing, might just be on my end, but, can't see it.
Thanks for bringing it up. First time I forgot this!
The Brainwaves pedal. I use it in a stereo setup. I use it like a whammy pedal. The right channel goes up 1 octave and the left goes up 2 octaves.
I have a digitec whammy pedal, but i really like the stereo and customization that the brainwaves pedal has to offer.
I didn’t even know they had a Whammy like pedal. I’ll have a look.
I enjoyed this video. I'm letting you know. 👍 My first pedal: TC chorus. Cost me a week's pay ($250 or so) but seemed worth it. Needed a chorus for my twin reverb, since I missed the amazing chorus on my first amp: Peavey backstage chorus 208 (poor man's jazz chorus-amazing solid state cleans/stereo chorus/spring reverb) Latest pedal purchase: TC iron curtain last week for like $35 at GC. I'm really moving up in the world. I'm starting to collect those cheap metal tanks: got the skysurfer reverb and Cinders OD, and now the iron curtain gate. Those cheapos all sound pretty good. I want to get the vintage tube primer pedal and the vintage octascreamer. And the nova drive OD/system. And the preamp, or a clone. TC stuff kicks asses. 👍
I fully agree!
And unlike you I couldn’t afford the chorus back then 😮💨
@@KohleAudioKult Love your channel. 👍 Hope you continue to do some more unknown/underrated gear for us non recording bedroom/basement dwelling players. The Celestion alnico blue, DV-77 and Jenson videos were some of my favorites. Still searching for the perfect tone/speakers that will cancel the sound of my wife stamping her feet above me and screaming at me to turn it down and that I suck. Gotta buy more 4x12's.
@@crankshaft383 You're on the right path. more amps and cabs will silence your wife sooner or later! 😇
Hey Kohle, interesting that you still use the Finalizer! A Video how you use it and integrate it in mastering would be great. Long live the Kult!
On the list already, Felix!
@@KohleAudioKultsplendid! 👍🏻
Clear sonic s
T. C always be great for me
I do want to get that IR Loader on my pure pedalboard rig. 😎
Do it!
Aurora DSP has a Plugin, which simulates the TC Pre Pedal, and it´s even Freeware
I'm really surprised that TC haven't done a reissue of the Integrated preamplifier. They would make a killing
Absolutely! Maybe they’re listening 😜
The TC Integrated Pre really needs to be re-issued. The trick is to cut all of the bass & to also cut the highs a little bit then boost as much as you can. It's a Baxandall EQ, the shelving that you get cutting the low & highs determines the midrange.
Oh really? I usually fully boost hte highs and cut the bass slightly. I guess it depends.
@@KohleAudioKultYep, that's how the 33 is voiced. Really cool that you're giving the TC gear some attention. Would love to see more.
Only experience I have with tc is the Gmajor and the 1210 spatial expander. Have to say I'm happy with them both for the money. They're both more effect than anything, but they do it well. The hardware controller has to be plugged in for the plugins to work even though you can just use your mouse. Stupid lol.
Great video! What about the TC Electronic Powercore (DSP)? Don‘t you also have it in your studio?
Yes, one in every room. I forgot to mention it.
But I mentioned most of the good plugins (which are now available in a native format anyway).
Is it still in service (with FireWire connections) in your studio?@@KohleAudioKult
How did it go? Did you manage to get Quad tracking out of 2 di tracks? If i would LOVE to know how!
Even better, just watch the video!
ruclips.net/video/sKfA0EwwN6o/видео.html
Glaube das G-Major hatte ich damals auch im Rack😎
Ist aber schon so lange her🤣
I have a 'TC Electronic' actual tube-driven overdrive which later i discovered was really a behringer-style cheap knock-off of a more expensive and better built 'boutique' pedal (colour scheme, dimensions, name similarities etc). I didn't even know the other pedal existed when i bought it, i saw a real one on that pedal show and then clocked it. I knew TC Electronic made great studio equipment, in the eighties and early 90s I was the assistant for a close mate (bless his memory), whenever he did outside freelance work and he would use the TC stuff if it was available. That's why i bought the tube overdrive. It's very mid. Yeah it's probably not bad enough to be cool, so, 'mid' is about right.
I love tc electronic distortion pedals...Fangs Metal, Eyemaster or Grand Magus sounds great💀
Years ago I bought a D-Two for nearly 600 bucks, which was a lot for me in these times, and first of all the manufacture was pretty bad in my opinion, very cheapish, like all the models at that time (M-One etc.), and after a few months, it was broken even twice. Whereas the sound was more than ok, this wasn't the best I got from TC. But I'm still interested in the older stuff.
Pepers Pedals Dirty Tree...😎GET ONE🍻🤘
Another TC clone right?
Of course, its the Preamp / Boost in one without the absurdly high price tag. My favorite boutique guitar pedal find evers 🤓
I'm also a TC Electronic guy 🤘I have the Corona Chorus, Flashback Delay, Sentry Gate, Nova Drive and the Dito Looper. Love them since the 1st day 😍
Beer for every 10 minutes sounds about right
I told you! 😇🤣
I think there is a lot of gear that is frequently used but not talked much about. Does that mean that these products are bad? No, they just do their f*cking job: no magic machines or secret weapons, but versatile, reliable, robustly built gear, which is usually still affordable. And this might be often more helpful in lot of situations.
For example dbx is basically present in almost every analog studio or live rack (e.g. the 166 and 266, or the graphic equalizer) , but besides the dbx 160 people do not care much about it.
Furthermore, a lot of people (especially not really professional ones) on social media tell you that you have to use or to do certain things to not be considered a stupid amateur. But they often don't realize that people, which defied such "rules", often cleared the way for something which became a standard later-on. But you shouldn't care, as long as you are able to achieve your desired results ...
True!
The DBX stuff has always been great. I still got a 1066 in the rack.
TC Electronic should reissue that "meshuggah" booster. Why only Fortin and Misha profiting 😂
Auroradsp has a free vst of preamp.👹
Oh yeah!
The Hypergravity multiband comp pedal is such a nice thing to have on any pedalboard!
But if my memory doesn't betray me, TC was bought by Music Tribe way after they got famous again in the pedal (and bass amp) world. I rember reading that Behringer then gave many shitty pedals to TC, so that they can work their magic and make them actually usable (the then ~50€ series like the eyemaster).
Also regarding the old school reverb/delay topic: What about Alesis? Don't know about big studios, but the Microverb and Midiverb units were pretty popular with guitar players and budget oriented studios, as far as I know. The effects quality was, and still is, pretty good, especially for the price point.
TC made the Behringer pedals worse. Behringer made some cheap clones of discontinued Boss pedals, but the fools at TC ruined them. They made the Heavy Metal clone less useful by removing EQ knobs, they changed the Dimension C clone to mono, when the Behringer version was stereo. TC ruined the Behringer pedals. Terrible company.
Well sh*t... i now own a bundle of tc elec plugins... affiliate link clicked.
Let me know how you like them! 🍻
@KohleAudioKult the boost works well as an OD! Much better, it seems, than other plugins.
Isn't TC electronics owned by Behringer?
Yes
mimiq
Dear Tony, what about Lele's electronics, is everything lower voltages and/or double cheese on metal free pizza?! The wacka-wacka pedal wouldn't make me love reggae rather then rugged dubstep. I'm still missing that warm and bright tone, but this ain't that 🆕️ sound 📴 the grid. If you don't even *try *(long notes and drinks not included on that terrace) could you say that the comparison was optimized? All I ever had was a Quadraverb, a Wah pedal and an extra Fuzzy tone. Nowadays you'd get Microsoft Edge and Cortana, anybody else is missing fresher milk cream, Navigator and Front Page?! I don't know. Namastè.
Sponsored video so I take with a grain of salt... I've bought a few Tc electronic pedals and 2 out of 3 completely BORKED after 6 months or so.... never again. You get what you pay for... maybe the software plugins won't half die after a period of time? lol
Oh, don’t worry! I have been a TC fan for 20+ years just like I describe it in the video. They just made me talk about it.
@@KohleAudioKult ahhh ok so I'll take YOUR experience and ignore my own and put my full faith in the brand. Oki doki! 😁👍
@KaddysJamKave I’m not telling anyone what to do. I’m just talking about my favorite TC gear from 20+ years of using it.
What you do with that information is up to you.
who even uses L2? any other maximizer is better
Back in the days the L2 used to be an industry standard. It is still a very good, low distortion limiter. It’s just not good for rock or metal mixes with lots of drum transients.
Includes paid promotion. Stop the shilling bro, or change the name of your channel to Kohle Audio Shill.
I love getting paid for praising gear that I use and love!
No problems with that at all. Come back and complain when there's a problem with the quality of the content!
@@KohleAudioKult Did you get paid for shilling the TC Mesa preamp? How many of your videos are paid advertisements? Must be saddening to be a glorified pedal salesman.